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52 Ancestors…Colourful…

For Week 30’s Colourful theme, I’m highlighting the life of my 2nd cousin twice removed – Violet Maud Flower. Her name certainly paints quite a picture and tracing her has been quite interesting. Longtime readers of this blog might recall the Flower name from an earlier post about Violet’s mother, Emma Spong, my great-grandfather’s cousin,… Continue reading 52 Ancestors…Colourful…

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52 Ancestors…Flowery names…

This week’s post will be a lot shorter 🙂 The current 52 Ancestors prompt is Favourite Name, and I have chose the Flower family. Yes, indeed – I have a collateral line with the surname Flower. Remember Daniel Spong from last week and his twin brother, William who were born late in 1827? 1 The latter… Continue reading 52 Ancestors…Flowery names…